(Posted
2 a.m., March 3)Colonel
By SS gets high marks on list of top high schools in the provinceBy Fred Sherwin
Orléans Online

For
the fourth straight year, Colonel By Secondary School
is ranked among the top 10 high schools in the province
according to the Fraser Institute's annual Report Card
on Ontario's Secondary Schools.

The
Report Caed looks at the school's 2013 EQAO results and
then weighs them based on a number of socio-economic factors
including gender, percentage of ESL students and average
family income.

Colonel
By has been at or near the head of the class in Ontario
for the past four years. The school was ranked 5th in
2012, 6th in 2011 and 5th in 2010. This year the school
placed eighth out of 740 schools with a rating of 9.1.

Besides
being home to the top high school in the city, the east
end can also brag about having the top French language
Catholic high school in Ottawa, Garneau; the second ranked
English language Catholic school, St. Peter; and the second
ranked French language high school, Louis-Riel.

Garneau
scoed an 8.7 on the Report Card, making it the 21st ranked
high school in the province and second highest French
language high school in the city behind De La Salle which
scored a 9.1.

St.
Peter High School scored an 8.2 which placed it 48th out
of 740 schools province wide, and second among the English
Catholic high schools in the city after Mother Teresa
in Barrhaven which scored an 8.4.

École
secondaire catholique Béatrice-Desloges has the
distinction of having the most improved grade among the
east end's high schools, improving from a 5.2 in 2012
to a 6.9 in 2013.

Of
the 11 high schools in the east end, nine are ranked in
the top half of all the high schools in the province.
The only two that aren't, Gloucester and Lester B. Pearson,
have the lowest average family incomes. They also had
the lowest results on the EQAO test with more than 30
per cent of the students tested scoring below the provincial
average.

By
comparison only 5.4 per cent of the students tested at
Colonel By scored below the provincial average, and Garneau,
St. Peter. Louis-Riel, Gisele-Lalonde, Cairine Wilson
and Béatrice-Desloges all had at least 80 per cent
of their students score at or above the provincial standard.

The
scores for the 11 east end high schools are listed in
the colour coded chart below. The full report card can
be viewed at www.fraserinstitute.ca.